ii 4 DARWINISM AND RACE PROGRESS. 



develops with them, and is adapted with them as 

 these organs during growth assume their proper 

 racial and family characteristics. By an exhaustive 

 examination and comparison of the skulls of different 

 individuals of different races, the anthropometrist is 

 able with certainty to affirm regarding the skulls of 

 unknown persons their race and their general posi- 

 tion in the scale of intellectual development. In a 

 race where brain power is great, the brain pan is 

 large and capacious, to accommodate the organ within 

 it ; it is a large-brain-small-jaw skull. In a race in 

 which the brain power is limited, we have the small- 

 brain-big-jaw skull. In races on much the same 

 intellectual level, but who differ from each other in 

 special physical and mental characters, the skull is 

 generally a recognisable feature, and one can pick 

 out at once the long skull of an Aryan from the 

 broader skull of a Finn or Magyar. 



Many of the sepulchral mounds just alluded to 

 have been opened, notably by General Pitt-Rivers 

 and Canon Greenwell, and the remains of well-pre- 

 served skulls have in several hundreds of instances 

 been found. These go back to very remote antiquity, 

 in many instances to* the Stone Age, which we may 

 place at least before the Christian era. When these 

 skulls are examined, they are found to be similar to 

 many of our own. When we look at them, we feel 

 that there is no reason to assume that they are of a 



